Google Glass review: useful – but overpriced and socially awkward

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She will answer to Tony Fadell – the chief executive of Nest Labs, the home automation company Google bought for more than $3bn (£2bn) last January - but will have autonomy to run the project, Google confirmed.

The company said that the Glass Explorer programme, which closes on 19 January, was “a kind of ‘open beta’ to hear what people had to say.”

“As we look to the road ahead, we realise that we’ve outgrown the lab and so we’re officially “graduating” from Google to be our own team here at Google,” the statement continued. “You’ll start to see future versions of Glass when they’re ready.”

The company has given no specific date for when the next version of Glass might be available.